Tom Stoppard Quotes
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.
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This group is composed of those for whom belief in saucers is tantamount to religion...They believe men from outer space will step in on Earth 'before it's too late,' put a stop to the atomic bomb threat 'by their superior powers,' and enforce perpetual peace 'for the good of the universe'...
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May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.
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A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.
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An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
